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...Biff didn't hear the last remark, for he was already running out of the building. He knew now he was right; it was big. And he had to find that little foreigner with the only clue he now had: a cryptic phrase--"The Bronze Rhinoceros...
...always creeping in upon joy? Why should it pierce him and find him out in this dear, beautiful place into which he had been wafted so mysteriously?" The plot-a 19th century version of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde-is every bit as lurid as the prose. Cryptic strangers turn up at Cornish inns; blackhearted villains display appropriately "bestial" passions; brave young Tristan nearly gets himself killed stopping the runaway horses of Isolde's barouche. Nature obligingly spurs on the action with torrential rains, impenetrable fogs, thunderclaps and lightning bolts...
...correspondents abroad and our 45 correspondents in this country, in the clipped and sometimes cryptic language of cablese, go hundreds of questions and requests each week from the writers and editors in New York. Sometimes all that is asked is one quick question, such as one requested for this week's comprehensive year-end business review: Are there any computers yet in Cameroun? (Back came the answer, in puzzled French-wow.) Whether the query asks clarification of a small obscure point or seeks a correspondent's full appraisal of a long-observed crisis, diversity is the correspondent...
There are still, of course, the two most confusing characters of all: Hector (Harry Low Simons) and Gnatalia (Carolyn Mercer) who drift across the stage with cryptic sneers apparently wondering why Wolfson put them there. Yet what they must say they say with dignity. And David Gilfillan has designed a magnificently intricate machine...
...that Secrets of Women suffers from too much tranquillity and too little drama. Quite the contrary. Just as in Wild Strawberries, Bergman builds up a rich world of visual symbols and touches the agonized center of his characters' struggles; but he has not yet become obsessed with dark and cryptic half-meanings that lead on to a twilight zone of nightmare...